New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-25
4 PEN PICTURE OFaPATn DOMAIN
Hom N, oAieaao Mail.

The ChfcdQo Mai.
Colonel Pat Donan-and iis name Is not Pat but
Pete-has again alighted in Chicago lie comes with
3 bevy OF beauties from the South TO show them Chi
cago To take them out the lake and let the lake
breers, unooss their tropical tresses and play
pon their faces. This DOMAIN Is strange compound
in 81 ito OF himself and In site OF the determination OF
some oeoplo who say he is not lie Is little oil every
thing and ALWAYS gentleman. IL he had his way he
would have for the ruler OF this country. aud
then he would 60 away into some stness OF the
Northwest aud sell out the country to syndicate OF
railroad boomers. Then he would drive them out of
the country laugh at their misfortune and IN twink
ling ould take himself TO the ruins OF some Monte
una nall and sit down and map another world
where men and women would appear fuli'hedged.
Ready for dance ready tor cyclone, ready for any
sort of harmless prscy ready Tor ythiog where
he could appear the front Always ready for some
thing or an, thing which will leave him mystery.
lie knows moro men and women today than any other
one man or halt dozen men Ia the United States. lie
oan 90 whs re other would be kicked down stairs
lie oan get what he wants, apparently, and yet no
one ever knew him beg. lie has travelled more in
his own country than any one In it. He captivates
women and then goes away leaving them 10 think
aoout him a. the old Astronomers who worshipped
the pl-ade as 1t faded gradually from sight and went
out forever.
On one occasion Donan WAS guest at tho home OF
Senator Beck. of Kentucky. The Senator has
beautiful and cultivated daughter whom he calls
Beckie She Is his hope and brilliant In any social
acting On the occasion OF Donans vi II to the Beck
mansion there the oishoots of the blood OF the
state -Brecken ridges, Msgofrs Buckners, Carlyes.
Donan talked a. he never talked before. And when
he had gone Becke said to her father: Papa, be-
lieye DOMAIN Is the mar v no wrote the TOUR
Beck has been telling that nbont Donan ever since.
Two months ago the writer met Donan IN N0Droe-st,
and Tor the frs, tms in the writer's knowledge OF the
man he seemed under cloud Il AN going TO leave
Chicago he said at going to Virginia and stay
there In that country where the people have tradi
fiou that Is like story, where they live for one an
other and expect TO die in heap and 90 to Heaven in
ono CHI riot. You people OF Chicago are too COM
nercia for me. l go into m insion on one OF your
South Side and the host entertalns me with
talk on hog. His daughter comes IN and plays aud
siuo, about the hog hear nothing bct hog wherever
90 l hear nothing but the dollar-the trade mark
on tho h,g You preach hog, talk hog, sing hog pray
hog ana sleep hog, and whea you die you Will 20 to
some celestial pork packing land on the back OF
hog" Then he sailed away-he doesn't walk, but he
floats through the air-and went South. There he
preached the gorcs VI Chicago and the breezes OF the
lake lie went from house to house, like wandering
minstrel until the girls and their mammas end aunts
dubbed together and forming galaxy followed him
htber and here the, subject to his directions.
shall unite the two sections, he says in one OF his
philosophical moods. I" will have national we'd
ding" r,,..
and then come again with something unheard OF
Mavbe he il ephemeral; maybe he 10 a dreamer.
Neither great mediocre neither wise nor foolish
NOT rich-not evsn well-to-do. sort OF rainbow In
iragm-nts with thread of lightning running through
and through, and buuoh OF fire Crackers suffering
aud going of aud making the atmosphere sulphurous
Whsn he comes to die he will doubtless say with
Mirabeau: any dear fellow, J shall die to-day.
When nan has reached this point there RENAME only
one thing to do. viz, TO have himself perfumed,
crowned with flowers and surrounded with music, so
that he may enter with pleasure upon the sleep which
kno NO waking